Briefly describe your issue below:
When I did sudo parrot-upgrade today, wifi was disabled.
Please tell me how to enable wifi again.
What version of Parrot are you running? (include version (e.g. 4.6), edition(e.g. Home//KDE/OVA, etc.), and architecture (currently we only support amd64)
parrot security 4.6 What method did you use to install Parrot? (Debian Standard / Debian GTK / parrot-experimental)
Configured to multiboot with other systems? (yes / no)
no If there are any similar issues or solutions, link to them below:
If there are any error messages or relevant logs, post them below:
the “suggested” fix was to use broadcom-sta-dkms
But that was unsuccessful as well, returning:
Scanning application launchers
Updating active launchers
Done
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up broadcom-sta-dkms (6.30.223.271-10) …
Removing old broadcom-sta-6.30.223.271 DKMS files…
Deleting module version: 6.30.223.271
completely from the DKMS tree.
Done.
Loading new broadcom-sta-6.30.223.271 DKMS files…
Building for 5.1.0-parrot1-3t-amd64
Building initial module for 5.1.0-parrot1-3t-amd64
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.1.0-parrot1-3t-amd64 (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/build/make.log for more information.
dpkg: error processing package broadcom-sta-dkms (–configure):
installed broadcom-sta-dkms package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
broadcom-sta-dkms
UPDATE: after removing broadcom-sta-dkms I once again ran sudo parrot-upgrade which reinstalled the firmware-realtek binary firmware and I am still unable to access wifi or bluetooth.
sudo ifconfig wlan0 down
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
So as of now, I still have no wireless via the internal card